The seventeenth season of The Bachelor premiered on January 7, 2013. This season features 28-year-old Sean Lowe, a former Kansas State football player from Irving, Texas. Lowe finished in third place on the eighth season of The Bachelorette featuring Emily Maynard. The season concluded on March 11, 2013 in which Catherine Giudici was named the winner and became Lowe's fiancé. Giudici eventually became Lowe's wife when they got married in January 2014. Lowe and Giudici are currently living in Dallas, Texas with their two sons, Isaiah and Samuel, and daughter, Mia.